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Volume39,Number33 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-j THURSDAY, April 11, 2613
Carver High testing
single-gender classes
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
It could be said that Daniel Piggott
Jr.'s common core algebra class is a
boys' club, and
that s the way
Piggott likes it.
Piggott led the
charge to imple
ment single gender
classes at Carver
High School in the
2012-13 school
year. The Carver
alumnus currently
teaches three sec
tions of algebra to
freshmen males. Another Carver teacher, I
Charita Ward, leads all-female classes, I
while a third instructor is charged with |
mixed gender groups.
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See Carver on A8 Dan Piggott Jr. teaches a classroom full of boys on Monday.
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Photos by Kevin Walker
Inductees (from left, front row) Michael Bennett, Russell Rice, Gwendolyn West McCoy, Julie Smith Cox, Ken Lee
Hayes, David Hart and (back row, from left) Jonathan Jarrod Butler, Rodney Webb and Ben Piggott.
local sports
legends Added to Hall
Sportsmen Club President Robert Wynn speaks as
Club Sgt. At Arms Cornell Gwyn listens.
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THECHRONK-lf
There have many seminal moments in Rodney Webb's
life, but two stand out. His union to his wife. Rita, more than 30
years ago is tops; he called his induction last week into the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County High School Sports Hall of Fame
"the second best thing that has happened to me."
Webb and 12 others make up this year's inductee class. They
join the 238 former athletes, coaches, school administrators and
boosters already in the Hall, which was established in 1983 by the
Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club.
"You (have) become part of a very elite group," Sportsmen
Club President Robert Wynn told the inductees during their April 3
coming out event at the Gathering Place building at the corner of
Sixth and Cherry streets. The building is the physical home of the
Hall of Fame, lite names of all inductees are enshrined there and
pictures of many of them from their athletic heydays hang on walls.
Though inductees are now years or decades removed from their
See Hall on A7
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Members
left in
limbo by
Y leaders
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Three months after Executive Director
Shawan Gabriel left the Winston Lake Family
YMCA to take his current post as CEO of Big
Brothers Big Sisters, the branch is still without a
leader.
Curt Hazelbaker. CEO of the YMCA of
Northwest North Carolina, told The Chronicle
when Gabriel announced his departure in
November 2012 that the organization hoped to
conduct a national search and have a successor
in place by March, but Y
officials said Tuesday '
that the position has not
even been posted.
The delay in filling
the branch's top job has
caused speculation.
Some longtime members
see it as an indication that
the YMCA of Northwest
North Carolina is moving
to rid itself of Winston
Lake, the network's only
predominantly African
American Y.
"We've been kind of
trying to bury the hatchet
on this. There's a lot of
rumors going around,"
Vernon McHam, vice
chair of the Winston
Lake Board of Directors,
said during a meeting
called by the Y
Association Tuesday at
Winston Lake. "I think
McHam
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Bachman
tfte members nere are be re to get spectncs. uur
members need to know what's going on, why
these things are being put off, put off, put off.
We need to be honest with our members here
about what's going on and what's going to hap
pen."
Mark Bachman. the COO of the 16-branch
YMCA of Northwest North Carolina, said the
selection process for Gabriel's replacement has
stalled because the organization is "looking at a
variety of options and Opportunities" for the Y to
meet the ever-changing needs of the Winston
Lake community and live up to its strategic
plan's goals in the hiring of the next director.
Many of the more than 70 Winston Lake
members and volunteers on hand for Tuesday's
meeting expressed dissatisfaction with the lack
of specifics in Bachman's explanation.
Hazeibaker, who officials said was out of town,
did not attend the meeting.
"I've been here since this Y opened its doors.
Every time we lose a director, we go through
this prolonged process of getting someone to
See YMCA on A3
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Marchers stand for voting rights
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Local residents took a page from the 1960s
Sunday, taking to downtown streets for a silent i
march to protest measures being considered by the
state legislature that could deny minorities their right
to vote.
Hundreds of marchers gathered at the Forsyth ?
See March on A10
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State Sen.
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speaks as
State Rep. Ed
Hanes looks
on.
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